Sharing Strategies, Sharing Solutions: A Policy Institute for Innovations in Public Services
Monday, August 27
10:00am Welcoming Remarks
- Ernesto Dal Bó, Phillips Girgich Professor of Business, Haas School of Business, UC-Berkeley
10:45am Brief Overview of the EDI Programme’s Approach to Policy Uptake
- Mark Henstridge, Chief Economist, Oxford Policy Management
11:00am Frontiers in Evidence-based Policy: Evaluating National-Scale Reforms and Citizen Engagement in Sierra Leone
- Katherine Casey, Associate Professor of Political Economy, Stanford
11:45am Frontiers in Evidence-based Policy: Using Mobile Money to Fight Corruption in Afghanistan
- Michael Callen, Assistant Professor of Economics and Strategy Management, UC-San Diego
2:00pm Priorities for Investment, Strategies for Action: Open Government and Evidence-based Policy
- Andrew Westbury (Moderator)
- Elizabeth Brower, Economic Adviser, UK Department for International Development
- David Sasaki, Program Officer, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
3:45pm Frontiers in Open Government: Open Policy Analysis and Opportunities to Collaborate
- Fernando Hoces de la Guardia, Research Fellow, Center for Effective Global Action, UC-Berkeley
4:30pm Concluding Session
Tuesday, August 28
10:00am Welcoming Remarks
- Ernesto Dal Bó, Phillips Girgich Professor of Business, Haas School of Business, UC-Berkeley
10:15am The State of Science: Evidence on Policy Reform
- Bilal M. Siddiqi, Economist, Development Impact Evaluation, The World Bank
11:15am The State of Science: Evidence on Policy Reform
- Ernesto Dal Bó, Phillips Girgich Professor of Business, Haas School of Business, UC-Berkeley
- Frederico Finan, Associate Professor, Economics and Haas School of Business, UC-Berkeley
1:45pm Rountable Discussion: Policy Challenges, Research Priorities
3:30pm Rountable Discussion: Policy Challenges, Research Priorities (continued)
4:15pm Closing Session
Wednesday, August 29
9:30am Welcoming Remarks
- Mark Henstridge, Chief Economist, Oxford Policy Management
- Fred Finan, Associate Professor, Economics and Haas School of Business, UC-Berkeley
10:15am Taxation
- Pierre Bachas (World Bank): “Audit Selection under Weak Fiscal Capacity (Senegal)”
- Justine Knebelmann (Paris School of Economics): “Measuring the Effect of Technological Improvements and Compliance Nudges on Property Taxes: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Senegal”
- Shekhar Mittal and Aprajit Mahajan (UC Berkeley): “Who is Bogus? Catching Fraudulent Firms in India”
11:30am Courts
- Joyce Sadka and Enrique Seira (ITAM): “Improving the Effectiveness of Labor Courts through Information and Conciliation (Mexico)”
- Bilal Siddiqi (World Bank): “Using Administrative Data Systems to Improve Court Efficiency: Multi- Country Study (Kenya, Tanzania, India)”
- Virginia Nelder (Senior Legal Researcher, Kenya Law Reform Commission): “Judicial Decisions as Public Goods (Kenya)” on behalf of J. Andrew Harris (NYU-Abu Dhabi)
12:15pm Rights & Access to Legal Protection
- Eric Arias (Princeton): “Community Policing and Public Trust: A Field Experiment in Colombia”
- Kate Vyborny (Duke): “Institutional Reform and de facto Women’s Rights (Pakistan)”
- Michael O’Sullivan (World Bank): “Relaxing Credit Constraints and Tenure Insecurity in Imperfect Markets (Uganda)”
2:30pm Bureaucracy & Public Goods
- Edward Miguel (UC Berkeley): “The Political Economy and Governance of Rural Electrification”
- Erika Deserranno (Northwestern) and Gianmarco Leon (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): “Performance- Based Incentives in Multi-Layered Organizations: Evidence from Sierra Leonean Community Health Workers”
3:30pm Bureaucracy & Public Goods
- Andrew Zeitlin (Georgetown): “Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda Primary Schools”
- Katherine Casey (Stanford): “Politician Entry, Selection, and Performance in Sierra Leone”
- Charity Troyer Moore (Harvard): “Using Digital Trails to Improve Management and Accountability for Public Service Delivery (India)”
4:15pm Closing Remarks
- Ernesto Dal Bó, Phillips Girgich Professor of Business, Haas School of Business, UC-Berkeley
Thursday, August 30
9:15am Research Feedback Sessions
11:30am Research Feedback Sessions (cont’d)
